{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-biden-administration-needs-to-stop-draining-the-spr-must-take-the-handcuffs-off-us-oil-and-gas-producers", "Hoeven: Biden Administration Needs to Stop Draining the SPR, Must Take the Handcuffs off U.S. Oil & Gas Producers", "2022-10-19", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "John Hoeven", "H001061", "www.hoeven.senate.gov", "hoeven", "https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "Hoeven: Biden Administration Needs to Stop Draining the SPR, Must Take the Handcuffs off U.S. Oil & Gas Producers\n\nFARGO, N.D. \u2013 Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement after President Biden announced a plan to release an additional 15 million barrels of oil from the nation\u2019s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).\n\n\u201cThe Biden administration has been draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropping it to the lowest level in 40 years, while begging OPEC+ to produce more oil,\u201d said Hoeven. \u201cInstead of draining our reserves and making the U.S. subject to the whims of OPEC, the Biden administration needs to take the handcuffs off U.S. oil and gas producers. Empowering domestic energy production is the right long-term solution to lower energy costs and provide hardworking families relief at the pump.\u201d\n\nHoeven continues pushing back on the Biden administration\u2019s harmful energy agenda, including:\n\nWorking toend the administration\u2019soil and gas moratorium on federal lands and to move forward with all postponed and future lease sales.\n\nWorking to streamline the approval of key energy projects, like theNorth Bakken Expansion Pipeline.\n\nIntroducing legislation thattakes immediate action to increase U.S. energy production, including:\n\nProhibiting any presidential moratoria on new energy leases.\n\nRequiring the administration to hold oil and natural gas lease sales in each state with land available for leasing.\n\nProhibiting drawdowns of the SPR until the Interior Secretary issues a plan to increase oil and gas production on federal lands.\n\n-###-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-biden-administration-needs-to-stop-draining-the-spr-must-take-the-handcuffs-off-us-oil-and-gas-producers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.412426121532917, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}